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My goal is to spend more time focussing on my University work than reading. I always tend to do things last minute because of blogging and reading. I only have 5/6 months left so my goal is to take a back-seat for that time and concentrate more on University... even though I don't want to haha

Hey Kelly,Wonderful goals! Marketing 5 books and writing 3 more...OK, at some point in the near future, you need to teach a teleseminar about writerly productivity!I want to echo your point about health--it is a long term investment and if we want to write into our 60s, 70s and 80s like Eudora Welty, Ursula Le Guin, Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood, we've got to take care of our bodies.

I like your list Kelly. It's succinct and to the point. I've trimmed mine down too in the hope that if I keep it simple it's a whole lot easier to sit down and get to the work more quickly, less thinking and wondering about what to do. And like you I hope to get a lot more reading done this coming year also...thinking about setting a challenge for that, but on the other hand want reading to be the down-time, and not a pressure!! Good luck with your list xxx

I would like to get back to reading more, but I have so many stories floating around in my head that want to be written! Keeping up with social media and marketing my books will also be a big challenge this year. Good luck with your goals and have a Happy New Year!

I'm still trying to come up with my list. So many things floating around in my head. I'd like to make more time to write and read. I seem to be reading less nowadays. Yes, please. Take time off to take care of your health. :)

I'm being much more conscientious when it comes to my health. I have a tendency to get crazy and work myself into the ground, but I'm making an effort to eat right, exercise, and get enough sleep from now on.

I haven't thought about them yet as I am frantically trying to finish a Dec 2012 goal - finish the third novella and go back and make character changes to the first two. I suspect I might run over in to 2013. I see my 2013 goals floating outside the French Doors. They are wooing me with sweet nothings but I have to stay right here in my chair. I am glad to see there is a section in your list for ME TIME. I suggest taking yourself out for coffee - away from the house and the computer, bring a book and your writer's journal, this way you'll feel as if you haven't left your passion entirely alone at home. Merry Merry.

Thanks for stopping by my blog . . .when an author follows me I'm always like "Wow"!!! . . . my big goals this year have been starting my blog and settling my eldest son into SEN school . .so now this year I would like to have more relaxed family time; create an office space (just for me!) . . .and who knows maybe I'll start writing???

Great goals list. My goals for 2013 are (a) to get the third draft finished on my novel, in fact, all the drafts of it until it's as polished as it can be to send off to agents or publishers, (b) write a couple more plays for my business, (c) lose weight, (d) concentrate on more couple time with my husband, and (e) keep to my routine of writing and other work.

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Kelly Hashway fully admits to being one of the most accident-prone people on the planet, but that didn’t stop her from jumping out of an airplane at ten thousand feet one Halloween. Maybe it was growing up reading R.L. Stine’s Fear Street books that instilled a love of all things scary and a desire to live in a world filled with supernatural creatures, but she spends her days writing speculative fiction. Kelly’s also a sucker for first love, which is why she writes romance under the pen name Ashelyn Drake. When she’s not writing, Kelly works as an editor, and also as Mom, which she believes is a job title that deserves to be capitalized.